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The Safe Place
by Anna Downes
“The Safe Place” by Anna Downes
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I was given this ARC by @netgalley for a honest review!
What would you do if you were broke, unemployed, and feeling lost? Would you accept an unconventional job to get a fresh start?
This is a debut novel by Anna Downes. I found this very well written and enjoyable. The characters are relatable as mental illness is real. Everyone probably knows someone that suffers from it, but everyone deals with it differently.
“Emily lost her job, apartment, and acting agent in one day.” She calls her mum for the hundredth time asking for money to get her by until the next job comes around. If she can’t be an actress she doesn’t know what she wants to do. When her mum says no she starts feeling desperate.
Scott Denny is the CEO of a successful business and is looking for the perfect person to work for his family. His estranged wife and daughter live hours away in France while he works in London. His desire to go “home” and see them becomes less and less. His wife is lonely, but unwell and needs help around the property.
Emily is the perfect person for his family. When she accepts the unconventional job offer he calls Nina (wife) and tells her he’s sending someone.
Emily arrives at Querencia and is estonished at how beautiful it is. An Oceanside property with two homes and farmland. She can’t shake the feeling something odd is happening here. It is so remote there are no phones, no internet, and no outsiders. There is Nina and her six year old daughter Aurelia plus a groundskeeper Yves.
Emily falls into a routine and is loving the simple life. She starts questioning things that are going on around the property. One minute Nina will be sweet and motherly and the next she will rage out. She thought she finally found the family of her dreams. When Emily starts to investigate the Denny family she is shocked at what she finds. If there is no escape from Querencia how will she survive?
Thrillers make you work for that heart stopping, throat gripping feeling.
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I was given this ARC by @netgalley for a honest review!
What would you do if you were broke, unemployed, and feeling lost? Would you accept an unconventional job to get a fresh start?
This is a debut novel by Anna Downes. I found this very well written and enjoyable. The characters are relatable as mental illness is real. Everyone probably knows someone that suffers from it, but everyone deals with it differently.
“Emily lost her job, apartment, and acting agent in one day.” She calls her mum for the hundredth time asking for money to get her by until the next job comes around. If she can’t be an actress she doesn’t know what she wants to do. When her mum says no she starts feeling desperate.
Scott Denny is the CEO of a successful business and is looking for the perfect person to work for his family. His estranged wife and daughter live hours away in France while he works in London. His desire to go “home” and see them becomes less and less. His wife is lonely, but unwell and needs help around the property.
Emily is the perfect person for his family. When she accepts the unconventional job offer he calls Nina (wife) and tells her he’s sending someone.
Emily arrives at Querencia and is estonished at how beautiful it is. An Oceanside property with two homes and farmland. She can’t shake the feeling something odd is happening here. It is so remote there are no phones, no internet, and no outsiders. There is Nina and her six year old daughter Aurelia plus a groundskeeper Yves.
Emily falls into a routine and is loving the simple life. She starts questioning things that are going on around the property. One minute Nina will be sweet and motherly and the next she will rage out. She thought she finally found the family of her dreams. When Emily starts to investigate the Denny family she is shocked at what she finds. If there is no escape from Querencia how will she survive?
Thrillers make you work for that heart stopping, throat gripping feeling.